Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-18
CLEVELAND'S ANCESTRY
Gossip About the CleyeIands OF the
Past-The Presidents Early Life.
His Literary Relatives.
The Founder of the City of Cleveland.
The CIeveIands of Washington.
Other Matters.
Knoxville Tribune.

Knoxville Tribune.
! WASHINGTON, June l0.-President
Cleveland and bis family have been some
what treated of in the newspapers, but
there is no fuller exposition of all mat
tiers connected with them than will De
found in "Appleton's New CyclopHdia Of
American Biography" which is now 60
ing through the press. The first volume
OF This will contain ell the Clevelands of
prominence in American history, and not
a few of these @lll be unknown to the
average reader. Grover Cleveland him
self is descended from Moses Cleveland,
who left Ipswich, county OF Suffolk. Eng
land, in 1855, and settled a. Woburn,
Mass. This man was the great-grand-
father of the great-greatgT grandfather Of
Grover. President Cleveland's grand
fathers name was William, and he was 8
silversmith ana matchmaker at Norwich,
Conn. His father was Richard Falley
| Cleveland, q Presbyterian preacher, who
graduated at Yale in 1924.
Grover Cleveland made his first money
at eighteen, and at this time he was paid
by his uncle $40 week for six weeks
work. The labor performed was in con-
nection with the "American Herd Book"
President Cleveland afterward aided in
several volumes of this work, and in the
preface to the fifth volume of 1861 you
will find the acknowledgment of MS
services.
-.
In this the President followed the liter
airy bent Of his family, for the Clevelsnds
of the past seem to have been much in
clined to literature. Aaron Cleveland,
who was born in 1744, ard who was the
great great-grandfather of the Presi-
dent, produced q fine poem, entitled "The
Philosopher and the Boy" at nineteen
years Of age, and President Cleveland's
grandfather published several sermons
and q few poems. The Presidents great
great grand uncle was the author of an
autobiographical work entitled "Foyages
and Commercial Enterprises" and son
of this man, Henry Russell Cleveland, who
YVES, l suppose, grand cousin or some
tn. * Of that kind of the President, was
graduated at Harvard IN 1927, and was
one of the college band called give of
Clubs" his associates being Charles Sum-
mer, Henry W. Longfellow, Cornelius c..
FELTON, and George S. HIlliaTd. This man
was classical scholar. He published
an edition OF S9llusts works with
English notes, Remarks on the
Classical Education OF Boys, by Teach
err" and the elite of Henry Hudson, "
which you Will find in Sparks American
Biographies" A brother of this Cleve-
land, Horace William Shaler Cleveland,
had some sympathies in common with
CIeveland's uncle, for whom he wrote
49, - IL
land was landscape gardener and q
noted one. He designed several Of the
parks OF Chicago, and the Roger Williams
pa of Providence; aud ne wrote and
published "HinTs to Rfemen," Gland
scape Architecture" and "Yoyage of
g Merchant Navigator" Father Charles
Cleveland was a noted preacher, and
was employed in charitable work N Bos-
tor. He published reports on charity,
etc, and like many of the other Cleye-
lands, he made long sea voyage, going
to the Cape of Good Hope before the
mast. Charles Dexter Cleveland, the
Presidents second cousin, was the au-
thor of compendiums of "English Liter
aturen end number of other books on
American literature. He wrote num-
Der of text books, and he was author of
ton of Milton, a book of hymns for
schools and concordance of Milton's
works which has been republished in
England.
| do not know the exact relation Cd
Benjamin Cleveland, VINO was born at
Bull Run in 1913, to the President, but
the enormous proportions which he &C
CURED during the latter part Of his life
should lead our executive to sturdy eXer-
cises. He grew to weigh $50 pounds and
died in his chair. This Benjamin Cleve-
land was noted hunter Of the days of the
revolution. He was an acquaintance of
Daniel Boone and he was an Indian
fighter. He was soldier in the revolu-
tionary war, and it is said ne was great
terror to the Tories, and was once cap
tured by them IN 1871 and carried to the
woods. His friends, however, routed the
marauders and rescued Cleveland. He
was Judge of the court st the time of
his death and he was g noted man in his
day. President CIeveland's great-great-
greet-great grandfather, the father of the
man who wrote the poem, 1.-The Philoso-
phe- and the Boy" was also 4 man Of
great strength and activity.
Prior to this Aaron Cleveland the name
was spelt "CIeavelsnd," but when Aaron
was on visit to England he became con-
WINGED that the 'ta'' should be left out,
and upon his return he so signed his name.
This form of the name is kept in this
branch otthe family 70 this day. Moses
Cleveland, who also came from England,
and whose ancestors were from Ipswich,
the town in England from which those Of
President Cleveland come, spelled his
name with an ia" in the first
syllable. He was also graduate of
Yale and lawyer. He was several times
member of the Connecticut Legislature
and was shareholder in the Connecticut
Land Company, which bought the West
err Reserve from Congress for 81, 20O,-
900. 1t was Moses Cleveland VINO laid
out the city of Cleveland, and this town
was first spelt with an ga" 1t was
founded in 1896, but IN 1880, when the
first newspaper, the Cleveland Advertiser,
was published, it was discovered the head
line was too long for the form, and &C
cordingly the letter "a'' was left out in
the first syllable of "Cleaveland."
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